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NEXT Collaboration (Novella, P. et al); Carcel, S.; Carrion, J.V.; Lopez, F.; Lopez-March, N.; Martin-Albo, J.; Muñoz Vidal, J.; Querol, M.; Romo-Luque, C.; Sorel, M.; Uson, A. |
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Demonstration of neutrinoless double beta decay searches in gaseous xenon with NEXT |
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Journal Article |
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2023 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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09 |
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9 |
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190 - 35pp |
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Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay (experiments); Rare Decay |
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The NEXT experiment aims at the sensitive search of the neutrinoless double beta decay in Xe-136, using high-pressure gas electroluminescent time projection chambers. The NEXT-White detector is the first radiopure demonstrator of this technology, operated in the Laboratorio Subterr & aacute;neo de Canfranc. Achieving an energy resolution of 1% FWHM at 2.6 MeV and further background rejection by means of the topology of the reconstructed tracks, NEXT-White has been exploited beyond its original goals in order to perform a neu-trinoless double beta decay search. The analysis considers the combination of 271.6 days of Xe-136-enriched data and 208.9 days of 136Xe-depleted data. A detailed background mod-eling and measurement has been developed, ensuring the time stability of the radiogenic and cosmogenic contributions across both data samples. Limits to the neutrinoless mode are obtained in two alternative analyses: a background-model-dependent approach and a novel direct background-subtraction technique, offering results with small dependence on the background model assumptions. With a fiducial mass of only 3.50 +/- 0.01 kg of Xe-136-enriched xenon, 90% C.L. lower limits to the neutrinoless double beta decay are found in the T-1/2(0 nu) > 5.5x10(23) -1.3x10(24) yr range, depending on the method. The presented techniques stand as a pro of-of-concept for the searches to be implemented with larger NEXT detectors. |
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[Hauptman, J.] Iowa State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Ames, IA 50011 USA, Email: pau.novella@ific.uv.es |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al); Cabrera Urban, S.; Castillo Gimenez, V.; Costa, M.J.; Fassi, F.; Ferrer, A.; Fiorini, L.; Fuster, J.; Garcia, C.; Garcia Navarro, J.E.; Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.; Hernandez Jimenez, Y.; Higon-Rodriguez, E.; Irles Quiles, A.; Kaci, M.; Lacasta, C.; Lacuesta, V.R.; March, L.; Marti-Garcia, S.; Miñano, M.; Mitsou, V.A.; Moles-Valls, R.; Moreno Llacer, M.; Oliver Garcia, E.; Pedraza Lopez, S.; Perez Garcia-Estañ, M.T.; Romero Adam, E.; Ros, E.; Salt, J.; Sanchez Martinez, V.; Soldevila, U.; Sanchez, J.; Torro Pastor, E.; Valero, A.; Valladolid Gallego, E.; Valls Ferrer, J.A.; Villaplana Perez, M.; Vos, M. |
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Search for direct third-generation squark pair production in final states with missing transverse momentum and two b-jets in root s=8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector |
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2013 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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10 |
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10 |
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189 - 40pp |
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Hadron-Hadron Scattering; Supersymmetry |
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The results of a search for pair production of supersymmetric partners of the Standard Model third-generation quarks are reported. This search uses 20.1 fb(-1) of pp collisions at root s = 8 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The lightest bottom and top squarks ((b) over tilde (1) and (t) over tilde (1) respectively) are searched for in a final state with large missing transverse momentum and two jets identified as originating from b-quarks. No excess of events above the expected level of Standard Model background is found. The results are used to set upper limits on the visible cross section for processes beyond the Standard Model. Exclusion limits at the 95% confidence level on the masses of the third-generation squarks are derived in phenomenological supersymmetric R-parity-conserving models in which either the bottom or the top squark is the lightest squark. The (b) over tilde (1) is assumed to decay via (b) over tilde (1) -> b (chi) over tilde (0)(1) and the (t) over tilde (1) via (t) over tilde (1) b (chi) over tilde (+/-)(1), with undetectable products of the subsequent decay of the (chi) over tilde (+/-)(1) due to the small mass splitting between the (chi) over tilde (+/-)(1) and the (chi) over tilde (0)(1) |
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[Jackson, P.; Soni, N.] Univ Adelaide, Sch Chem & Phys, Adelaide, SA, Australia |
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WOS:000326296900004 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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NEXT Collaboration (Kekic, M. et al); Benlloch-Rodriguez, J.M.; Carcel, S.; Carrion, J.V.; Diaz, J.; Felkai, R.; Lopez-March, N.; Martin-Albo, J.; Martinez, A.; Martinez-Lema, G.; Martinez-Vara, M.; Muñoz Vidal, J.; Novella, P.; Palmeiro, B.; Querol, M.; Renner, J.; Romo-Luque, C.; Sorel, M.; Uson, A.; Yahlali, N. |
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Demonstration of background rejection using deep convolutional neural networks in the NEXT experiment |
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2021 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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01 |
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1 |
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189 - 22pp |
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Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay (experiments) |
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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used state-of-the-art computer vision tools that are becoming increasingly popular in high-energy physics. In this paper, we attempt to understand the potential of CNNs for event classification in the NEXT experiment, which will search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Xe-136. To do so, we demonstrate the usage of CNNs for the identification of electron-positron pair production events, which exhibit a topology similar to that of a neutrinoless double-beta decay event. These events were produced in the NEXT-White high-pressure xenon TPC using 2.6 MeV gamma rays from a Th-228 calibration source. We train a network on Monte Carlo-simulated events and show that, by applying on-the-fly data augmentation, the network can be made robust against differences between simulation and data. The use of CNNs offers significant improvement in signal efficiency and background rejection when compared to previous non-CNN-based analyses. |
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[Hauptman, J.; Nygren, D. R.] Iowa State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, 12 Phys Hall, Ames, IA 50011 USA, Email: marija.kekic@usc.es |
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WOS:000616730800001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al); Amos, K.R.; Aparisi Pozo, J.A.; Bailey, A.J.; Bouchhar, N.; Cabrera Urban, S.; Cantero, J.; Cardillo, F.; Castillo Gimenez, V.; Chitishvili, M.; Costa, M.J.; Didenko,, M.; Escobar, C.; Fiorini, L.; Fullana Torregrosa, E.; Fuster, J.; Garcia, C.; Garcia Navarro, J.E.; Gomez Delegido, A.J.; Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.; Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G.R.; Guerrero Rojas, J.G.R.; Lacasta, C.; Marti-Garcia, S.; Martinez Agullo, P.; Miralles Lopez, M.; Mitsou, V.A.; Monsonis Romero, L.; Moreno Llacer, M.; Munoz Perez, D.; Navarro-Gonzalez, J.; Poveda, J.; Prades Ibañez, A.; Rubio Jimenez, A.; Ruiz-Martinez, A.; Sabatini, P.; Salt, J.; Sanchez Sebastian, V.; Sayago Galvan, I.; Senthilkumar, V.; Soldevila, U.; Sanchez, J.; Torro Pastor, E.; Valero, A.; Valiente Moreno, E.; Valls Ferrer, J.A.; Varriale, L.; Villaplana Perez, M.; Vos, M. |
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Search for dark matter produced in association with a Higgs boson decaying to tau leptons at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector |
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Journal Article |
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2023 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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09 |
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9 |
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189 - 53pp |
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Hadron-Hadron Scattering |
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A search for dark matter produced in association with a Higgs boson in final states with two hadronically decaying tau-leptons and missing transverse momentum is presented. The analysis uses 139 fb(-1) of proton-proton collision data at root s = 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider between 2015 and 2018. No evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model is found. The results are interpreted in terms of a 2HDM+a model featuring two scalar Higgs doublets and a pseudoscalar singlet field. Exclusion limits on the parameters of the model in selected benchmark scenarios are derived at 95% confidence level. Model-independent limits are also set on the visible cross-section for processes beyond the Standard Model producing missing transverse momentum in association with a Higgs boson decaying into tau-leptons. |
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[Filmer, E. K.; Jackson, P.; Kong, A. X. Y.; Potti, H.; Ruggeri, T. A.; Ting, E. X. L.; White, M. J.] Univ Adelaide, Dept Phys, Adelaide, SA, Australia |
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Hoang, A.H.; Ruiz-Femenia, P.; Stahlhofen, M. |
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Renormalization group improved bottom mass from (gamma) sum rules at NNLL order |
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2012 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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188 - 30pp |
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Heavy Quark Physics; Sum Rules; QCD |
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We determine the bottom quark mass from non-relativistic large-n gamma sum rules with renormalization group improvement at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic order. We compute the theoretical moments within the vNRQCD formalism and account for the summation of powers of the Coulomb singularities as well as of logarithmic terms proportional to powers of alpha(s) ln(n). The renormalization group improvement leads to a substantial stabilization of the theoretical moments compared to previous fixed-order analyses, which did not account for the systematic treatment of the logarithmic alpha(s) ln(n) terms, and allows for reliable single moment fits. For the current world average of the strong coupling (alpha(s) (M-Z) = 0.1183 +/- 0.0010) we obtain M-b(1S) = 4.755 +/- 0.057(pert) +/- 0.009 alpha(s) +/- 0.003(exp) GeV for the bottom 1S mass and (m) over bar (b) ((m) over bar (b)) = 4.235 +/- 0.055(pert) +/- 0.003(exp) GeV for the bottom (MS) over bar mass, where we have quoted the perturbative error and the uncertainties from the strong coupling and the experimental data. |
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[Hoang, Andre H.; Ruiz-Femenia, Pedro; Stahlhofen, Maximilian] Univ Vienna, Fac Phys, A-1090 Vienna, Austria, Email: Andre.Hoang@univie.ac.at; |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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